Continuing with our programming series ... and that is a boon if you’re working in a team. In basic terms, a function is a block of code that performs various tasks. Should you need to, a ...

Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at Dartmouth College. That's when mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran ...

Functional programming is an approach to software development in which applications are constructed by creating and composing functions to achieve a desired outcome. In the functional programming ...

An early Dartmouth BASIC program, performing a simple math exercise ... stuffing it into whatever memory was available and improvising functions for machine-specific capabilities such as graphics ...

The BASIC programming language ... PRINT and GOTO as well as a few mathematical functions. Despite this simplicity, BASIC caught on in the following years and was ported to numerous mini and ...

The language, called ArnoldC, was developed by Finnish programmer Lauri Hartikka and assigns basic programming functions to the governator’s most recognizable catchphrases, including TALK TO THE ...

For those of us old enough to remember the beginnings of the microcomputer revolution, we can look back fondly on ‘the programming environment is the OS,’ a ton of BASIC programs ...

We found 101 Games in BASIC, a book with code for making versions of checkers, Battleship, and the like. It was our Necronomicon. We’d heard about computer programming, of course, but never ...